The Jordan Design and Development Bureau (JODDB) is a

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

ian defence company. The company was established by Royal Decree as King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) on 24 August 1999 to provide an indigenous capability for the supply of scientific and technical services to the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF). JODDB was also created for the supply of defense and commercial equipment optimized for

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requirements. It is an independent agency within the Jordanian Armed Forces tasked with operating according to best business practices and is financed both through the defense budget and by technology, products and services sales incomes. Headquartered in central

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, JODDB is organized into three divisions: the Engineering Group, the Manufacturing Group, and the Programs group.

JODDB Investment Group

Launched on 1 January 2010, the

JODDB Investment Group The Jordan Design and Development Bureau (JODDB) is a Jordanian defence company. The company was established by Royal Decree as King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) on 24 August 1999 to provide an indigenous capability for the s ...

has been established to act as the commercial arm for the King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (JODDB). The JODDB Investment Group aims at establishing new businesses in the Defense, security and Automotive industries along with all services that would complement these industries.

Industrial Gate Free Zone

In October 2009,

King Abdullah II Abdullah II (Abdullah bin Hussein; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of the Hashemites, who have been the reigning royal family of Jordan since 1921, and is traditionally reg ...

inaugurated the JODDB Industrial Park (KADDB IP), which is the first comprehensive free zone in the

, specialized in the defense industry and the manufacturing of vehicles. KADDB IP is a public limited liability company owned completely by the Jordan Design and Development Bureau (JODDB). It was established in 2006 in accordance with the Free Zones Law to upgrade Jordan's industrial base, attract investments, and encourage the development of interactive industries for manufacturing vehicles. It is located on 3,800 dunams (1

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...

= 1,000 square meters) of land at Khalidiyah in the

Mafraq Governorate Mafraq ( ''Muhāfaẓat al-Mafraq'', local dialects ''Mafrag'' or ''Mafra' '') is one of the governorates of Jordan, located to the north-east of Amman, capital of Jordan. It has a population of 637,000 (2021 estimate) making up 5.8% of Jordan's ...

, 50 km from Amman and 24 km from Zarqa, on the cross roads linking Jordan to

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, and

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, which facilitates the transportation of KADDB IP products to all countries in the region.KADDB Industrial Park
. Kaddb-ipark.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-31.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan Design and Development Bureau * Defence companies of Jordan 1999 establishments in Jordan Companies established in 1999 Industrial design firms

JODDB Investment Group

Industrial Gate Free Zone

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